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Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radicalby Janice R. MacKinnon, Stephen R MacKinnonISBN 0520066146 (0-520-06614-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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All for the Union : The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodesby Robert H. Rhodes, Geoffrey C. Ward, Elisha Hunt RhodesISBN 0517584271 (0-517-58427-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Filmsby Michael B. DruxmanISBN 0498014711 (0-498-01471-1)
Hardcover, A. S. Barnes
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Binghams of Louisville: The Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunesby David Leon Chandler, Mary Voelz ChandlerISBN 0517568950 (0-517-56895-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Black Arrowby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486418200 (0-486-41820-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Bo Knows Boby Bo Jackson, Dick SchappISBN 0515107417 (0-515-10741-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigyby Frank BradyISBN 0486259250 (0-486-25925-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Breaking With Moscowby Arkady ShevchenkoISBN 0517628775 (0-517-62877-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnamby Neil SheehanISBN 051705597X (0-517-05597-X)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte and Her Familyby Rebecca FraserISBN 0517564386 (0-517-56438-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Capoteby Gerald ClarkeISBN 0517055414 (0-517-05541-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Catcher in the Wryby Bob Uecker, Micky HerskowitzISBN 0515090298 (0-515-09029-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Cesar Chavezby Susan EddyISBN 0516279238 (0-516-27923-8)
Softcover, Childrens Pr
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Charles Darwin's Beagle Diaryby Richard Darwin KeynesISBN 0521003172 (0-521-00317-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollopeby Robert H. SuperISBN 0472101021 (0-472-10102-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Chuck Berry: The Autobiographyby Chuck BerryISBN 0517566664 (0-517-56666-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Claude Monet: 1840-1926by Charles F. StuckeyISBN 050009246X (0-500-09246-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Complete Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Library Editionby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0517174960 (0-517-17496-0)
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby Augustine, Albert Cook OutlerISBN 0486424669 (0-486-42466-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version'Book summary:One of the most influential religious books in the Christian tradition recalls crucial events in the author's life: his mid-4th-century origins in rural Algeria; the rise to a lavish lifestyle at the imperial court in Milan; his struggle with sexual desires; eventual renunciation of secular ambitions and marriage; and recovery of his Catholic faith.[via]More editions of The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version:
Corrie Ten Boom: Her Life, Her Faithby Carole C. CarlsonISBN 0515080616 (0-515-08061-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Cross and the Switchbladeby David R. WilkersonISBN 0515090255 (0-515-09025-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Day Lincoln Was Shotby Jim BishopISBN 0517446499 (0-517-44649-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Dragon Ladyby Sterling SeagraveISBN 0517117991 (0-517-11799-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Einstein : His Life and Timesby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 0517147181 (0-517-14718-1)
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Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945by Dwight D. EisenhowerISBN 0517065010 (0-517-06501-0)
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Emerson: The Mind on Fireby Robert D. RichardsonISBN 0520206894 (0-520-20689-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship. The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his age.
Richardson has, as much as possible, let Emerson speak for himself through his published works, his many journals and notebooks, his letters, his reported conversations. This is not merely a study of Emerson's writing and his influence on others; it is Emerson's life as he experienced it. We see the failed minister, the struggling writer, the political reformer, the poetic liberator.
The Emerson of this book not only influenced Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost, he also inspired Nietzsche, William James, Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges. Emerson's timeliness is persistent and striking: his insistence that literature and science are not separate cultures, his emphasis on the worth of every individual, his respect for nature.
Richardson gives careful attention to the enormous range of Emerson's readings--from Persian poets to George Sand--and to his many friendships and personal encounters--from Mary Moody Emerson to the Cherokee chiefs in Boston--evoking both the man and the times in which he lived. Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.
Eric & Ernie: The Autobiography of Morecambe & Wiseby Ernie Wise, Eric Morecambe, Dennis HolmanISBN 049101211X (0-491-01211-X)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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The Farter: Le Petomane 1857-1945by F. Caradec, J. NohainISBN 0517467968 (0-517-46796-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Fascist Intellectual: Drieu LA Rochelleby Robert SoucyISBN 0520034635 (0-520-03463-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Frederick the Great; A Historical Profile.by Gerhard RitterISBN 0520027752 (0-520-02775-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwinby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0517703947 (0-517-70394-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin'Book summary:The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify trends. Although valuable, the risk is that we ignore variations and end up with a skewed view of reality. In evolutionary terms, the result is a view in which humans are the inevitable pinnacle of evolutionary progress, instead of, as Stephen Jay Gould patiently argues, "a cosmic accident that would never arise again if the tree of life could be replanted." The implications of Gould's argument may threaten certain of our philosophical and religious foundations but will in the end provide us with a clearer view of, and a greater appreciation for, the complexities of our world. [via]
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Geishaby Liza Crihfield DalbyISBN 0520204956 (0-520-20495-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980sby Dave MarshISBN 051767338X (0-517-67338-X)
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Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmannby Steven C. SmithISBN 0520229398 (0-520-22939-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Henry Secondby W. L. WarrenISBN 0520034945 (0-520-03494-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry Second'Book summary:Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgments ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself an eloquent and impressive achievement.[via]More editions of Henry Second:
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Henry IIby W. L. WarrenISBN 0520022823 (0-520-02282-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry II'Book summary:Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgments ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself an eloquent and impressive achievement.[via]More editions of Henry II:
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mindby Robert D. Richardson, Barry MoserISBN 0520063465 (0-520-06346-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Henry VIIIby J. J. ScarisbrickISBN 0520011309 (0-520-01130-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry VIII'Book summary:Henry VIII's forceful personality dominated his age and continues to fascinate our own. In few other reigns have there been developments of such magnitudein politics, foreign relations, religion, and societythat have so radically affected succeeding generations. Above all the English Reformation and the break with Rome are still felt more than four centuries on.
First published in 1968, J. J. Scarisbrick's Henry VIII remains the standard account, a thorough exploration of the documentary sources, stylishly written and highly readable. In an updated foreword, Professor Scarisbrick takes stock of subsequent research and places his classic account within the context of recent publications."It is the magisterial quality of J.J. Scarisbrick's work that has enabled it to hold the field for so long."Steve Gunn, Times Literary Supplement [via]
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Herodotus: The Persian Warby W. ShepherdISBN 0521281946 (0-521-28194-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The History of the Lewis and Clark Expeditionby William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Elliot CouesISBN 0486212696 (0-486-21269-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition'Book summary:[via]Volume 3 of the classic edition of Lewis and Clark's day-by-day journals that later became the basis for U.S. claims to Oregon and the West. Accurate and invaluable geographical, botanical, biological, meteorological and anthropological material. Complete 1893 edition, edited by Elliott Coues from Biddle's authorized 1814 history.More editions of The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition:
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How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communicationby Larry King, Bill GilbertISBN 0517884534 (0-517-88453-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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" How to overcome shyness and put other people at ease
" How to choose an appropriate conversation topic for any situation
" How to ace a job interview, run a meeting, and mingle at a cocktail party
" What the most successful conversationalists have in common
" The one great question you can ask to enhance your conversation with anyone, anytime, anywhere [via]More editions of How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication:
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Ideas and Opinionsby Albert Einstein, Carl SeeligISBN 0517884402 (0-517-88440-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ideas and Opinions'Book summary:A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government. [via]
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassisby Random House Value Publishing Staff, Ellen LadowskyISBN 0517200775 (0-517-20077-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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John F. Kennedy : Commander in Chief: A Profile in Leadershipby Pierre SalingerISBN 0517162091 (0-517-16209-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountainsby Isabella L. BirdISBN 0486428036 (0-486-42803-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Last Mediciby Harold ActonISBN 050025074X (0-500-25074-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Medici'Book summary:In his remarkable account of the last Medici, famous aesthete and historian Harold Acton (1904-1994) takes up the causes which led to the disappearance of a house which has left indelible traces on the art, literature and commerce of the world; and his book was one of the first attempts to deal with this despotic dynasty in a scholarly and impartial spirit. Much has been written about the phenomenal career of the early Medici: and there are many biographies of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Cosimo I, and the Medicean Popes. But less has been written of the final phase, and Acton demonstrates the hand of death overshadowing the great family in a series of unfortunate marriages - how one by one they vanished into the void. "The Last Medici" centres mainly round the fantastic figures of Princess Marguerite-Louise d'Orleans and her husband Cosimo III, most fatal of all the Medicean sovereigns. The last act closes on Gian Gastone, their cynical younger son, bedridden in the Pitti Palace, a florid figure of despair, with the Powers of Europe ever on the alert for the sound of his death-rattle. Full of brilliant colour, rich comedy and lurid tragedy, "The Last Medici" is at the same time a scientific contribution to the records of an extraordinary and unforgettable period. [via]
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Leaving Homeby Garrison KeillorISBN 0517685167 (0-517-68516-7)
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The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of Englandby Antonia FraserISBN 0520224604 (0-520-22460-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England'Book summary:This essential reference is a concise, accessible guide to the great dynasties of English royalty. A collection of biographical sketches that encompasses the period from the establishment of monarchical power by the early Norman kings through the reign of Elizabeth II, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England tells the stories of many monarchs and their colorful lives--some merry, some cruel, some heroic, others sinister. Antonia Fraser and a collection of distinguished contributors bring the people and events to life in this lavishly illustrated volume that is both engrossing history and an excellent reference tool.[via]
This updated edition includes a new essay describing the recently tumultuous reign of the Windsors. Included are details of the weddings of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, and of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson; the acrimonious collapse of the marriages; the effect the media have had on the royal family's image; and the fire at Windsor Castle. Such recent events as Diana's tragic death, the decommissioning of the Royal Yacht Britannia, and the launching of Queen Elizabeth's own website are also discussed.
Accompanying the text are 175 contemporary illustrations and drawings of the royal coats of arms, with their significance explained by J.P. Brooke-Little, Richmond Herald of Arms. This is a dazzling story of a thousand years of English history, as told through the lives and deeds of the nation's sovereigns.More editions of The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England:
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Loose Changeby Sara DavidsonISBN 0520209109 (0-520-20910-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Louisa May Alcottby Louisa May Alcott, Ednah D. CheneyISBN 0517124246 (0-517-12424-6)
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The Marx Brothers Scrapbookby Groucho Marx, Richard J. AnobileISBN 0491012926 (0-491-01292-6)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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The Mickby Mickey Mantle, Herb GluckISBN 0515085995 (0-515-08599-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De StaFElby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0517537834 (0-517-53783-4)
Softcover, Crown Pub
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My Chess Careerby CapablancaISBN 0486215482 (0-486-21548-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Frederick DouglassISBN 0486284999 (0-486-28499-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'Book summary:The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins, the Narrative is admired today for its extraordinary passion, sensitive descriptions, and storytelling power. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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Native Realm: A Search for Self Definitionby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0520044746 (0-520-04474-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolutionby Motoo KimuraISBN 0521231094 (0-521-23109-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematiciansby Jane MuirISBN 0486289737 (0-486-28973-7)
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On Growth and Formby D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonISBN 0486671356 (0-486-67135-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, Greg SurianoISBN 0517123207 (0-517-12320-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination.
The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion, and was soon used to justify the philosophies of communists, socialists, capitalists, and even Germany's National Socialists. But the most quoted response came from Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin's friend and also a renowned naturalist, who exclaimed, "How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!" [via]More editions of The Origin of Species: Library Edition:
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Lifeby Charles DarwinISBN 0486450066 (0-486-45006-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of FAvoured RAces in the Struggle for Life'Book summary:According to Wikipedia: "Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. After becoming eminent among scientists for his field work and inquiries into geology, he proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin?s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life." [via]
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Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0517565099 (0-517-56509-9)
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Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Trumanby Merle MillerISBN 0517466139 (0-517-46613-9)
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Pope Joanby Donna Woolfolk CrossISBN 0517593653 (0-517-59365-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pope Joan'Book summary:One of the most controversial women of history is brought to brilliant life in Donn Woolfolk Cross's tale of Pope Joan, a girl whose origins should have kept her in squalid domesticity. Instead, through her intelligence, indomitability and courage, she ascended to the throne of Rome as Pope John Anglicus.
The time is 814, the place is Ingelheim, a Frankland village. It is the harshest winter in living memory when Joan is born to an English father and a Saxon mother. Her father is a canon, filled with holy zeal and capable of unconscionable cruelty. His piety does not extend to his family members, especially the females. His wife, Gudrun, is a young beauty to whom he was attracted beyond his will--and he hates her for showing him his weakness. Gudrun teaches Joan about her gods, and is repeatedly punished for it by the canon. Joan grows to young womanhood with the combined knowledge of the warlike Saxon gods and the teachings of the Church as her heritage. Both realities inform her life forever.
When her brother John, not a scholarly type, is sent away to school, Joan, who was supposed to be the one sent to school, runs away and joins him in Dorstadt, at Villaris, the home of Gerold, who is central to Joan's story. She falls in love with Gerold and their lives interesect repeatedly even through her Papacy. She is looked upon by all who know that she is a woman as a "lusus naturae," a freak of nature. "She was... male in intellect, female in body, she fit in nowhere; it was as if she belonged to a third amorphous sex." Cross makes the case over and over again that the status of women in the Dark Ages was little better than cattle. They were judged inferior in every way, and necessary evils in the bargain.
After John is killed in a Viking attack, Joan sees her opportunity to escape the fate of all her gender. She cuts her hair, dons her dead brother's clothes and goes into the world as a young boy. Gerold is away from Villaris at the time of the attack and comes home to find his home in ruins, his family killed and Joan among the missing. After the attack, Joan goes to a Benedictine monastery, is accepted as a young man of great learning, and eventually makes her way to Rome.
The author is at pains to tell the reader in an Epilogue that she has written the story as fiction because it is impossible to document Joan's accesion to the Papacy. The Catholic Church has done everything possible to deny this embarrassment. Whether or not one believes in Joan as Pope, this is a compelling story, filled with all kinds of lore: the brutishness of the Dark Ages, Vatican intrigue, politics and favoritism and most of all, the place of women in the Church and in the world. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Recollections of a Picture Dealerby Ambroise VollardISBN 0486235823 (0-486-23582-3)
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Redburn/ White-Jacket/ Moby-Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0521262186 (0-521-26218-6)
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Ronald Reagan: Biographyby Kenneth T. WalshISBN 0517200783 (0-517-20078-3)
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Proseby William K. Wimsatt, Brady, Frank & Wimsatt, William K., EditorsISBN 0520035526 (0-520-03552-6)
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Senator Joe McCarthyby R. Rovere, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0520204727 (0-520-20472-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Senator Joe McCarthy'Book summary:Richard Rovere, a longtime New Yorker staff writer who died in 1979, combined three all-too-rare journalistic traits--legwork, style, and bravery--to create this 1959 J'accuse, which Walter Lippman called "the definitive job." Rovere had a handle on the particulars, as illustrated by his surgical disassembly of Joe McCarthy's fantastic autobiography, and the abstract principles, as illustrated by his comment that McCarthy's victories were mostly in "matters of an almost cosmic insignificance." His causes celebres were causes ridicules. The University of California Press is to be congratulated for this paperback reissue. After all, even if anticommunism is on sabbatical, demagoguery is not, and it pays to stay up on the tricks of the trade. [via]
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Sinatra : Ol' Blue Eyes Rememberedby Random House Value Publishing Staff, David HannaISBN 0517160684 (0-517-16068-4)
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Statesman and Saintby Jasper RidleyISBN 0517484862 (0-517-48486-2)
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Thomas Mann, the Ironic Germanby Erich HellerISBN 0521280222 (0-521-28022-2)
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrativeby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0486458024 (0-486-45802-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative'Book summary:In 1834, a Harvard student enlisted as a common seaman--the result was this adventure classic. Crackling with realism, it offers memorable views of a dangerous voyage, vividly describing storms, whales, an insane captain, excruciating hardships, and magical beauty, as well as fascinating historical detail, including a portrait of California before the gold rush.[via]More editions of Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative:
Vn: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokovby Andrew FieldISBN 0517561131 (0-517-56113-1)
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War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrookeby Alex Danchev, Daniel Todman, Alan Brooke Alanbrooke, Field Marshal AlanbrookeISBN 0520233018 (0-520-23301-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke'Book summary:For most of the Second World War, General Sir Alan Brooke (1883-1963), later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, was Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and Winston Churchill's principal military adviser, and antagonist, in the inner councils of war. He is commonly considered the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army. His diaries--published here for the first time in complete and unexpurgated form--are one of the most important and the most controversial military diaries of the modern era. The last great chronicle of the Second World War, they provide a riveting blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and eventually won--including the controversies over the Second Front and the desperate search for a strategy, the Allied bomber offensive, the Italian campaign, the D-day landings, the race for Berlin, the divisions of Yalta, and the postwar settlement.[via]
Beginning in September 1939, the diaries were written up each night in the strictest secrecy and against all regulations. Alanbrooke's mask of command was legendary but these diaries tell us what he really saw and felt: moments of triumph and exhilaration, but also frustration, depression, betrayal, and doubt. They expose the gulf between the military and the politicians of the War Cabinet, and how often military strategy was misguided and nearly derailed by political prejudices. They also reveal the incredible strain on Alanbrooke of the Allied conferences in Washington, Moscow, Casablanca, Quebec, and Tehran, as he tried after intense and exhausting argument (not least with Churchill) to match Allied strategy with the reality of British military power and the fragility of the British Empire. These diaries demonstrate the true depth of Alanbrooke's rage and despair at Churchill's failure to grasp overall strategy. This was particularly acute in the winter of 1943-44 when Churchill, fueled by medicine and alcohol, no longer seemed master of himself.More editions of War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke:
War Diaries, 1939-1945by Field Marshel Alanbrooke, Alex Danchev, Daniel TodmanISBN 0520239024 (0-520-23902-4)
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The Warrior Generals : Combat Leadership in the Civil Warby Thomas B. BuellISBN 0517595710 (0-517-59571-0)
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We Are Still Marriedby Garrison KeillorISBN 0517080133 (0-517-08013-3)
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When Rabbit Howlsby Truddi ChaseISBN 0515103292 (0-515-10329-2)
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Widowsby William R. CorsonISBN 0517572354 (0-517-57235-4)
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Writing Dangerously : Mary McCarthy and Her Worldby Carol BrightmanISBN 0517564009 (0-517-56400-9)
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